CURRENT MISSION

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

ABOUT ME

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

PHILOSOPHY

The world is like a ride at an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it, you think it's real, because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round and it has thrills and chills and it's very brightly colored and it's very loud. And it's fun, for a while.

Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: 'Is this real? Or is this just a ride?' And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and they say 'Hey! Don't worry, don't be afraid -- ever -- because... this is just a ride.' And we kill those people.

'Shut him up! We have a lot invested in this ride! Shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry; look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real.' It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that -- ever notice that? -- and we let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter, because... it's just a ride, and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort. No worry. No job. No savings and money. Just a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy bigger guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.

Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, into a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defense each year and, instead, spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would do many times over -- not one human being excluded -- and we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever. In peace.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies,
one chapter is not torn from the book, but translated into a better language;
and every chapter must be so translated. As the bell that rings to a sermon,
calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come:
so this bell calls us all. No man is an island, entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were,
as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were;
any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind,
and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

He who travels far often sees things far removed from what he once believed to be truth. When he talks about it in the fields at home, he is accused of lying, for obdurate men do not believe what they do not see and distinctly feel. Inexperience, I belive, will give little credence to my song.

Interests

Above and beyond...

• writing
• books
• running
• clothing

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe,
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate.
All those moments...
will be lost in time...
like tears...
in rain...

Teach, Learn, Share

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Canada, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, France, Honduras, Mexico, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States